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| Born | Louis Simeon Cannon June 3, 1933 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | December 19, 2025 (aged 92) |
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| Children | 4, including Carl |
Louis Simeon Cannon (June 3, 1933 – December 19, 2025) was an American journalist, non-fiction author, and biographer who was state bureau chief for the San Jose Mercury News in the late 1960s,[1] and later senior White House correspondent of The Washington Post during the presidency of Ronald Reagan.[2] He was a prolific biographer of Ronald Reagan, having written five books about him. Cannon was a columnist and editorial advisor to State Net Capitol Journal, a weekly publication focused on state legislation and politics.[3]
Background
[edit]Louis Simeon Cannon was born on June 3, 1933, in Manhattan, New York, and was raised in Fallon, Nevada, and Reno, Nevada.[4][5] He was educated at the University of Nevada, Reno, before transferring to San Francisco State College.[4]
Career
[edit]After service in the United States Army, Cannon began his journalistic career in the late 1950s. In 1961, he joined The San Jose Mercury News, where he covered state politics.[4] This began his longstanding coverage of Ronald Reagan, who was elected the state's governor in 1966.[5]
Cannon moved to Washington, D.C., in 1969 to join Ridder Publications Inc., and went to The Washington Post three years later.[4][5] After covering the White House for many years, he, like Reagan, returned to California at the end of the 1980s.[4][5] Cannon retired from the Post in the late 1990s, after which he worked on books and freelance articles.[4][5]From 2005 until 2021 he wrote a column for the Sacramento State Net Capitol Journal. [6]
Personal life and death
[edit]Cannon married Virginia Oprian in 1953, with whom he had four children, including Carl M. Cannon, before divorcing in 1983.[4] Two years later, he married Mary Shinkwin.[4]
Cannon died from a stroke at a hospice facility in Santa Barbara, California, on December 19, 2025, at the age of 92.[4]
Publications
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 Part One of Booknotes interview with Lou Cannon on President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime, May 12, 1991, C-SPAN | |
| Part Two of interview with Cannon, May 19, 1991, C-SPAN |
- Ronnie and Jesse: A Political Odyssey (New York: Doubleday, 1969) LCCN 78-87099
- The McCloskey Challenge (1972)
- Reporting: An Inside View (1977)
- Reagan (1982)
- President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime (1991)
- Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD (1998)
- Ronald Reagan: The Presidential Portfolio: History as Told through the Collection of the Ronald Reagan Library and Museum (2001)
- Governor Reagan: His Rise to Power (2003)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Ronnie and Jesse, dust jacket biography
- ^ "CNN.com - Reckoning with Reagan: The written record - Jun 8, 2004". CNN.
- ^ "Legislative Tracking and Regulatory Reporting – LexisNexis State Net". www.lexisnexis.com.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i McFadden, Robert D. (December 20, 2025). "Lou Cannon, Journalist Who Chronicled Reagan in Books, Dies at 92". The New York Times. Retrieved December 20, 2025.
- ^ a b c d e Bernstein, Adam (December 19, 2025). "Lou Cannon, Post reporter and preeminent Reagan biographer, dies at 92". The Washington Post. Retrieved December 20, 2025.
- ^ https://www.nationalreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/xml_20220720B_nordlinger.html
External links
[edit]- Lou Cannon at Boeing
- Lou Cannon at All American Speakers, LLC
- Lou Cannon at IMDb
- Appearances on C-SPAN
